Geomancer Permaculture

That's a wrap! This week we finished up plantings in the Bring Back the Bluegrass plots at Marlboro Park in Lexington.

Together with some motivated neighbors and the office of we installed over 700 tenacious native plants in an area of the park that had been maliciously mismanaged for the previous six years. Once established, these plants will be able to hold that ground and provide beautiful blooms throughout the season, initiating the transformation from what was an eyesore into vital pollinator habitat and a community asset.

We have to be quite clear that it's going to take a whole lot more than a few work days to fix the citywide embarrassment that is the abandoned Bring Back the Bluegrass program, but we are grateful to CM Morton and all of our community advocates for having helped to get a few more eyes on this issue.

Everything we're doing is about the long term. All of the plant species we've selected for this site are not only drought-adapted and physically resilient once established, but will also be easy to propagate in the future so that if we can keep up this momentum, Marlboro Park can serve as the precedent and nursery stock for repairing "Bring Back the Bluegrass" all over the city.

Whether we can fulfill that promise will ultimately be determined by the popular support and mass organization that gathers behind these efforts.

As always, the issues we face on the landscape are not the result of fundamental challenges in ecology, but simply the inadequacy of our own human social organization.

Did you know that you can join us in this work? There is so much to do, and changing the world isn't a spectator sport.